When General Sir Mike Jackson had an audience with the Queen, he would ask his staff to request a midday slot. “Because after half an hour or 40 minutes, the Queen would ring a small bell and say, ‘Time for a sherry, I think.’” Just one tiny insight into royal …
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Texts claiming to be from Royal Mail were lighting up my phone screen every other day, asking me to pay an extra fee for a missed delivery. Source link
Read More »The Hidden Tapes, review – too little new information, too much crime glorification
Fifty-six years later, is there anything we don’t know about the infamous raid of a certain mail train bound for London from Glasgow? The Great Train Robbery: The Hidden Tapes (Channel 4) hoped so. It was built around access to previously unheard cassettes recorded by train-stopping specialist Roger Cordrey. But …
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